Charles R. Hauser

Charles Roy Hauser (born March 8, 1900 in San José , California , † January 6, 1970 ) was an American chemist (physical organic chemistry , organic synthesis). He was a professor at Duke University .

Hauser was the son of a German immigrant and grew up in Homestead near Miami . In his youth, he had to temporarily interrupt school for a year because of visual problems, which later plagued him and restricted his literature studies. He studied at the University of Florida with a Bachelor Accounts in chemical engineering in 1923 and the Master Accounts in Chemistry in 1925 and was at the 1928 University of Iowa in GH Coleman with the work The formation of primary cardamines from Grignard reagents and monochloro-amines Ph.D. . From 1929 he was an instructor at Duke University with full professorship from 1946. From 1961 he was James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry.

He dealt with physical organic chemistry and organic synthesis and was a special expert on the role of bases in organic synthesis. He wrote over 450 scientific papers. The Sommelet-Hauser rearrangement is named after him. His explanation of the mechanism of the Claisen reaction (ester condensation, with WB Renfrow 1937) and the Perkin reaction (with David Breslow 1938) was important. In a work from 1938 he formulated a rule named after him (for all those catalyzed by bases In ester condensations, the base formed is weaker than the one used to induce the reaction). In addition, the house bases he discovered are named after him.

In 1962 he received the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Herty Medal, in 1957 the Florida Section of the ACS and in 1967 the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufactures Association Medal. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences . He also received a Civilian Merit Medal (Certificate of Merite) from the US government for work on anti-malaria agents during World War II . He advised Union Carbide from 1946 to 1961 .

He was married to the chemist Madge Baltimore. His son Charles F. Hauser (1934-2009) was an organic chemist at Union Carbide in Charleston .

Web links

Hauser Papers, Duke University
Biographical Charles Bradsher, Memoirs Nat. Acad. Sci., Pdf
Biography NCpedia
Literature by and about Charles R. Hauser in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Charles R. Hauser at academictree.org, accessed on February 8, 2018.
^ Hauser, Renfrow, Certain condensations brought about by bases, Part 1,2 J. Am. Chem. Soc. , Volume 59, 1937, 1823, Volume 60, 463.
^ Hauser, Breslow, Certain condensations brought about by bases, part 5, 6, 9, 12, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 61, 1939, pp. 786, 793, Vol. 62, 1940, pp. 593, 2389.
↑ Obituary .

personal data
SURNAME	Hauser, Charles R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hauser, Charles Roy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Chemist (Physical Organic Chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Jose , California
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1970

[1] Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Charles R. Hauser at academictree.org, accessed on February 8, 2018.

[2] Hauser, Renfrow, Certain condensations brought about by bases, Part 1,2 J. Am. Chem. Soc. , Volume 59, 1937, 1823, Volume 60, 463.

[3] Hauser, Breslow, Certain condensations brought about by bases, part 5, 6, 9, 12, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 61, 1939, pp. 786, 793, Vol. 62, 1940, pp. 593, 2389.

[4] Obituary .